Posted on 05/21/2015 1:03:42 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The world is busy trying to achieve a global warming goal that some think were not on course to achieve, and that some scientists worry may not be enough to prevent some troubling scenarios like significant sea level rise.
That goal is limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. But theres another view, embraced by many countries (which tend not to be the big emitters), suggesting that a safer target involves limiting global warming to just 1.5 degrees C.
Yet that target would be still tougher to achieve, finds a new paper in Nature Climate Change that takes a thorough look at what 1.5 degrees would actually mean. The research, based on several models used by the U.N.s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, suggests that keeping global warming under 1.5 C would probably require that we overshoot the goal and then reverse course to reach it again through so-called negative emissions technologies, which would effectively pull carbon dioxide back out of the air again.
Indeed, the study finds that while its technically possible, the window for achieving this goal is small and rapidly closing.
The likeliest scenario is that the world will keep muddling through, examining more science and adjusting its targets, and that clean energy and even negative emissions technologies will improve meaning that in the end, we still have to wait and see just which target we can actually achieve, and how the planet responds.
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That would reflect a lot of heat back in to space and reduce the Earths surface temperature.
IN the spirit of full disclosure I dont own any Alcoa stock. No none at all. ;)
Or a pitcher of Mad Dog Margaritas!
The Aluminum Foil would actually get hot from the Sunlight. But hey, if they suggested that, it would make sense because they need anything to make things hotter and prove their point.
Yes the Aluminum Foil would get hot from the sunlight but it would get considerably less hot than say black roofs of most commercial buildings or black asphalt shingles of homes.
Aluminum foil reflects radiant heat.
Yeah, that's an interesting debate. How many Climate Syentists can you put on the head of a pin?
What is it with these people? Everything is a crisis and we have to do something right now or even yesterday. There's no time to waste. The sky is falling!
Problem is, they have given us these imminent deadlines multiple times and these "red lines" have come and gone and nothing ever happens. And just why is that? Because this is the biggest scam against mankind every perpetrated. So many people have bought into these fraudulent claims that it's scary that these people walk among us.
This hoax by the ideological Left has been going on for over four decades and the earth is still here and the climate is still changing like it always has since the beginning of time. I'm still waiting for the world to burst into flames at any moment but nothing every changes.
Gaia, shut the damn window already.
Let me guess. A totalitarian socialist world government.
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